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This article analyzes the role of emotion in narrations about the past, understandable as familial, intergenerational, or national. I examine how participants report and display affect in narratives about Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul of Bordeaux who issued thousands of lifesaving visas in June of 1940. Three sets of participants (descendants of visa recipients, Sousa Mendes' descendants, and Portuguese institutional representatives) each explicitly report and implicitly display how the Sousa Mendes story moves them emotionally. I then discuss how the emotion in these narratives may be circulated and taken up by broader audiences. Building on Irvine's discussion of the heteroglossia of affective expression (1990), participants may attribute emotion to others, signal emotion as occurring in the present or in a prior space–time, or merge emotional past and present in various types of emotional “reliving.” By treating emotion as eventlike, it can thus be considered chronotopic. I analyze the relationships between (re)presentation of emotion across multiple narrated and narrating chronotopes. This approach reveals how differently positioned participants' cross-chronotope alignments yield particular types of affective displays and experiences that others can then take up and recontextualize.
本文分析了情感在过去叙事中的作用,可以理解为家庭、代际或国家。我研究了参与者在讲述葡萄牙驻波尔多领事阿里斯蒂德斯·德索萨·门德斯(Aristides de Sousa Mendes)的故事时是如何报道和表现情感的。门德斯在1940年6月签发了数千份救生签证。三组参与者(签证接受者的后代、门德斯的后代和葡萄牙机构代表)各自明确地报告和含蓄地展示了门德斯的故事如何在情感上打动他们。然后,我讨论了这些叙事中的情感如何被更广泛的观众传播和接受。在Irvine关于情感表达异语的讨论(1990)的基础上,参与者可能将情感归因于他人,将情感作为发生在现在或以前的时空的信号,或者在各种类型的情感“重温”中融合过去和现在的情感。通过将情感视为事件,它可以被认为是时间性的。我分析了跨多重叙述和叙述时位的情感(再)呈现之间的关系。这种方法揭示了不同位置的参与者的跨时位排列如何产生特定类型的情感表现和体验,其他人可以接受并重新定位。
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The Journal of Linguistic Anthropology explores the many ways in which language shapes social life. Published with the journal"s pages are articles on the anthropological study of language, including analysis of discourse, language in society, language and cognition, and language acquisition of socialization. The Journal of Linguistic Anthropology is published semiannually.